Last year I came across this blog, Adventures in the Distant Fringe, which I immediately loved. It’s run by blogger Peter C., whom I have no idea who he is. Except that he’s running a great 2d6 SF game using the Cepheus Engine and the Distant Fringe Setting.

I’m very inspired by this campaign. Jeff and I are going to discuss it on SAFCOcast, but I thought I’d mention it here. Actually as a first “original” post on this blog I felt compelled to. The Campaign Pitch page really sold me on it, and then reading the first few session reports made me love it even more. It reminds me a lot of our Into the Void campaign, but it seems better.

They’ve been on hiatus for a while now, which I can understand. So have we. It’s been almost a year since we’ve played. Sometimes that happens, but that doesn’t mean the campaign has ended. I hope they start up again soon.

A few things that really struck me about this campaign as a GM.

• They just use the online Cepheus Engine System Reference Document (linked to above)
• They play relatively short sessions. 2 hours per week. That makes it easy on everyone
• They don’t appear to have used any purchased materials. All the stuff seems to be free and online

Now, I’m not suggesting that people shouldn’t buy cool stuff from publishers. Frankly, I need to do that. I suck at designing ships, for one thing, and I love finding great maps on DriveThru RPG and adapting them to my game. But the ability to run a really good campaign using only free, online materials shows how accessible this hobby is. I’m blown away.

I’ll leave you with this. Peter runs a more general RPG blog, and on it he did this One year of classics 2d6 sci-fi adventure summary, which I really loved. I want to do it for my campaign.